In 2012, the Colorado Republican Party conducted a study on the effectiveness of political direct mail that was published in Political Research Quarterly and finally answered the question — is all this mail doing anything?
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We all know that data is very en vogue these days, and not just in political circles. Predictably, this has led to a proliferation of squishy math, soft stats, and outright errors. So let’s go through some of the most common political math fallacies so that you too can ridicule others for making these mistakes. Because we all know public ridicule is the most effective form of instruction.
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Every cycle legislative leadership spends well into the seven figures on our effort to capture or defend competitive legislative races. But our inability to understand which races are actually competitive has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars of waste each cycle and mounting losses over the decade.
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Colorado Republicans faced an onslaught of Democrat cash in the 2018 election. But would having more money have saved us? Or are we just spending it wrong?
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Did same day voter registration impact the 2018 election results? We examined new voter registrations during the final month of the election to find out.
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Overview of the number of recall petition signatures required in each Colorado legislative district.
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Ranking Colorado’s best (and worst) Republican candidates shows that it’s still possible for Republicans to win. But only if we study the right campaigns.
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In the wake of the disastrous defeat that Colorado Republicans suffered this year people are in a frenzy to lay the blame on someone. But, where should that blame actually fall?
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After every election, regardless of the outcome, the chatter turns to what a terrible job the Colorado Republican Party did and how they’re to blame for every shortcoming that befell our party.
This makes sense, of course. Because, the next election is right around the corner — the race for State Party Chair.
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